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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2017
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jamie Charles Hanshaw, South Lyon, MI (US);
Luke Brodbeck, Brighton, MI (US);
Andrew Erich Mast, Northville, MI (US);
Shawn Kevin Carlisle, South Lyon, MI (US);
Paul John Adam, Lasalle, CA;
Joel John Beltramo, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for a phase control apparatus in a variable cam timing (VCT) system of an engine, the phase control apparatus having a locking pin coupled to a rotor vane and engageable with a locking pin recess in the phase control apparatus cover plate. In one example, a method for assembling the phase control apparatus may include positioning respective retarded side surfaces of the rotor vane and the housing in face-sharing contact while positioning respective retarded side surfaces of the locking pin and the locking pin recess in face-sharing contact and maintaining a backlash gap between only the advanced side surfaces of the locking pin recess.